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    "id": 625237,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwiru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alex Muthengi Mburi Mwiru",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I do not require a lot of time because at the end of the day, I know that there is a lot of interest in this particular Bill, especially having consulted most of the Members of this House who have been affected directly by the Community Land Bill. Hon. Speaker, the Bill intends to operationalise and give effect to Article 63(5) of the Constitution. The Bill entails all the land that we previously used to call “trust land” in this Republic. After the promulgation of the Constitution that we are now using, all the land that we thought was trust land has now turned out to be community land. That is what we are trying to legislate. Article 63(3) of the Constitution, which I want to bring to the minds of the membership of this House, reads as follows:- “Any unregistered community land shall be held in trust by county governments on behalf of the communities for which it is held.” What we have seen in this country today, after the coming in of devolution, is total plunder of community land by county governments. Previously, trust lands were held in trust by county councils. We have seen some county governments in some fora woo investors to their counties by promising them land to invest in, in terms of putting up manufacturing factories. Hon. Speaker, from where I stand as the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Lands, this is total corruption in that line because they are only holding community land in trust. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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